SPRINGUT LAW PC v. RATES TECHNOLOGY INC.

5557, 156233/14.

157 A.D.3d 645 (2018)

70 N.Y.S.3d 14

2018 NY Slip Op 00525

SPRINGUT LAW PC, Appellant, v. RATES TECHNOLOGY INC. et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided January 30, 2018.


Plaintiff law firm brings this action against its former clients for failure to pay its legal fees. Plaintiff contends that defendant Gerald Weinberger, now deceased — the president of the corporate defendants — intentionally kept one of his entities judgment proof in a fraudulent effort to obtain legal representation without paying for it.

The IAS court correctly dismissed the veil-piercing claim (fourth cause of action) because the allegations supporting...

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